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In case you have been off-planet for the last week, there is a media firestorm surrounding comments made by Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson concerning those in the LGBT community.<\/p>\nIn case you have been off-planet for the last week, there is a media firestorm surrounding comments made by Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson concerning those in the LGBT community.<\/p>\n
But, unlike every other writer on the internet, I am not here to discuss those comments or how A&E has handled the controversy.\u00a0Rather, I want to look at the media’s response and how it compares to incidents where other groups of American’s have been similarly attacked.<\/p>\n
So what kind of media response did the Duck Dynasty scandal receive? \u00a0The term ‘media firestorm’, which I used earlier, was custom made to describe what we are seeing in every major news outlet. \u00a0E-Online called it one of the top stories of the week … and that is in a week in which Congress reauthorized the indefinite detention of American citizens without trial. So clearly the media considers this an important story.<\/p>\n
In fact, there have literally been hundreds upon hundreds of reports. I would go so far as to say that no one who owns a radio, TV, or internet browser could have failed to hear about Phil’s GQ interview and the public relations nightmare it has caused for both the show and for A&E.<\/p>\n
But do not misunderstand me. \u00a0I am not criticizing the media for covering this issue. I believe that this issue justifies the amount of coverage it is receiving. \u00a0On the one hand, you have members of the LGBT community who feel that A&E is providing a forum for someone who holds their very existence in disdain. \u00a0On the other hand, you have Christians who believe that their voice in American culture is being systematically stifled.<\/p>\n
Regardless of which side you are on, the media is doing what it should be doing … reporting on the concerns of those groups of Americans so that the rest of us can be informed.<\/p>\n
But that willingness to report is sorely lacking when the people being attacked are gun owners.<\/p>\n
Let’s look at a few examples.<\/p>\n
As for the members themselves, if they oppose his efforts, he would see the government kill them and then begin \u201cprying the guns from their cold, dead hands<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n If politicians refuse to accede to his demands then he calls for them to be tied \u201cto the back of a Chevy pickup truck and [would] drag them around a parking lot until they saw the light.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n His fellow journalists seemed more than willing to look the other way as he spewed his hate-filled manifesto.<\/p>\n I could go on and on. \u00a0But you get the picture.<\/p>\n Is there any wonder why gun owners consider the media to be the lap-dogs of the gun control movement? \u00a0No amount of hatred or threats is considered newsworthy if the victim is a gun owner.<\/p>\n You can either be an advocate or and objective reporter but only where gun control is concerned does the media claim to be both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In case you have been off-planet for the last week, there is a media firestorm surrounding comments made by Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson concerning those in the LGBT community. But, unlike every other writer on the internet, I am not … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/guth-150x150.jpg\")
When University of Kansas journalism professor\u00a0David Warner Guth called for<\/a> the murder of NRA member’s children and for God to damn them, the media largely looked the other way.<\/p>\n
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When John Carburruvius,\u00a0a prominent member of the Texas Democrat Executive Committee, called for<\/a> the murder of NRA members and \u201ceveryone who defends them<\/em>,\u201d there was almost no coverage at all. \u00a0His followup that they \u201cneed to [be] wiped off the face of the earth<\/em>\u201d was not enough to make the comment newsworthy.<\/p>\n
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When\u00a0University of Rhode Island history professor\u00a0Erik Loomis went on a rage-filled tirade<\/a> in which he a) called for the assassination of NRA CEO Wayne\u00a0LaPierre, b) called all NRA members murderers, and c) called NRA members terrorists, you could have heard a pin drop.<\/p>\n
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When\u00a0Christopher Swindell, a journalism professor at Marshall University in West Virginia, declared<\/a> all NRA members to be traitors who should be executed by firing squad, there was no outrage from the mainstream media.<\/p>\n
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When comedian Dan Nainan expressed a wish<\/a> that a mass shooting take place \u201cat the offices of the NRA.<\/em>\u201d … crickets.<\/p>\n
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In fact, sometimes the media themselves are the ones attacking gun owners. \u00a0Des Moines Register\u00a0columnist Donald Kaul joined the attack<\/a>\u00a0on gun owners when he called for the government to \u201cdeclare the NRA a terrorist organization and make membership illegal … [then]\u00a0raze the organization\u2019s headquarters, clear the rubble and salt the earth.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n
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